The Russian creators of a popular mobile face editing application addressed scrutiny over its seemingly indefinite ownership of all photos uploaded to its server, the company revealed on July 17.
Wireless Lab is trying to ease privacy concerns about its terms and conditions that state the developers based in St Petersburg provide FaceApp on the condition it has a “perpetual, irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide” right to “use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate” any user content, username, and real name without paying compensation.